Yup. Poorer, but more free.

Freedom can mean stuff like being able to pollute and nobody having authority to stop you for example. Or the freedom to abuse another person as you see fit. That's the flipside to freedom, it enables assholes.

It would be so freeing to live in a world of no rules. But in practice that is just barbarism. It's a terrible way to run a society.

In some of those places, there is less government interference with everyday life.

Street vendors don't need permits, or if they do, it's only in the books but not in practice.

You might not have to have a health department license to sell food for example.

Buying beer or alcohol may not have strict age requirements. Parents have more dominion over their kids and the state interferes with that less.

There are of course disadvantages such as more abuse because, you know, you can't have nice things because the few spoil it for the majority of people who behave.

No. If you can afford a house in the US you can for sure afford to live in any of these places and enjoy whatever good they offer. The opposite is much more complicated. This makes you more free than people over there.

Also, in general terms, more money == more freedom.